“I think it is silly to imagine that the first five or ten years of life can be crated and shoved into some damp cellar of the mind where we can turn off the light and forget it. We can never really forget it. It's influence is far too powerful. And anyway, remembering isn't always disagreeable. How could it be? At the very least, it gives us a sense of who and what we are . Of course there are sorrows and confusions along the way, but there is hope and happiness, too. For most people, it all makes a balance.”(Natalie Babbbitt from her preface of the book THE STONE SOUP BOOK of FRIENDSHIP STORIES.)